Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Time Quotations

However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.

My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty